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Stardust To Stardust Reflections On Living And Dying
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Author : Erik Olin Wright
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2020-07-07
Stardust To Stardust Reflections On Living And Dying written by Erik Olin Wright and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Erik Olin Wright, one of the most important sociologists of his time, takes readers along on his intimate and brave journey toward death, and asks the big questions about human mortality. From the renowned Marxist sociologist and educator Erik Olin Wright, Stardust to Stardust is a curated collection of writings from the months of his treatment and hospitalization for acute myeloid leukemia. This combination of personal narrative with Wright’s analytical perspective results in a deeply complex, philosophical meditation on death and the meaning of existence.
Stardust To Stardust
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Author : Erik Olin Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
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Author : 艾瑞克．萊特(Erik Olin Wright)
language : zh-CN
Publisher: 麥田
Release Date : 2022-10-04
written by 艾瑞克．萊特(Erik Olin Wright) and has been published by 麥田 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
這裡就是烏托邦，就在這裡跳舞吧！ 【當代階級研究最重要的左派社會學家自述日誌】 補齊E. O. Wright 所思、所想、所感完整面貌 直擊社會學大師的真實「裡面」 艾瑞克．萊特是當代美國最重要的社會學家之一，本書彙集了他生前因罹患急性骨髓性白血病（Acute myeloid leukemia, AML）住院治療時，為了讓關心他的朋友能夠得知近況，並與大眾交流互動的部落格日記。本書經萊特家人的選編，加上重要社會學家與畢生摯友布若威（Michael Burawoy）的前言，繁中版並收錄兩位學生黃崇憲與陳婉容的重要文字點滴，以及萊特二○一四年來台留下的身影。 日誌內容完整、真摯且細膩地呈現萊特接受治療、逐日不同的反思軌跡，以及靠近死亡時的生活點滴、思緒與情感，包括觀察與思考自己的治療遭遇、對疾病的恐懼、夜裡的夢、對書寫與分享的熱忱、與家人的愛，並連結到他的智識思考與學術關懷；也談及當時他正努力收尾的《如何在二十一世紀反對資本主義》論著，以及著手兩項重要寫作計畫…… 誠摯推薦 （依姓氏筆畫順序） 李屹 《理解階級：二十一世紀階級論》譯者 李宗義 安徽大學社會與政治學院副教授，《真實烏托邦》編輯 林宗弘 中研院社會學研究所研究員 畢柳鶯 《斷食善終》作者，復健科醫師 張烽益 台灣勞動與社會政策研究協會執行長 黃上銓 社科圖書編輯、《理解階級》責任編輯 黃克先 台大社會系副教授，《真實烏托邦》譯者 黃崇憲 東海大學社會學系助理教授 推薦語 ★艾瑞克在這本病榻日記展現他一貫的樂觀與勇氣，讓萬千讀者陪著他走上一段無人知曉的「旅程」。正如同作者過往一本本啟發性的著作，帶給世人的各種領悟及行動熱情，我們在書中看到一生都在挑戰資本主義、追求「真實烏托邦」的艾瑞克，面對人生最後的挑戰，如何一邊承受肉體及精神的痛楚及折磨，一邊展示一名堅定不移的學者追求瞬息永恆的意志。旅程中，縱然有對上天的詰問，對「意義」的質疑，甚至對自我的否定，但艾瑞克最後留給我們的是他在身體轉為星塵消逝之際的無所畏懼，以及對人世的至愛。這本用心撰寫的生命之書，令人動容，也絕對值得一讀。——李宗義（安徽大學社會與政治學院副教授，《真實烏托邦》編輯） ★ 社會科學家經常把學術討論的焦點放在公平、正義、民主等價值，生命的極限與死亡的意義等話題，往往隱沒在對利益與權力鬥爭的學術分析裡……曾任美國社會學會理事長，以睿智的左派分析而著名的學者E. O. Wright，在突如其來的絕症衝擊之下，面對自己的有限的生涯，重新省思自己過去所致力推廣的社會民主理念，也留給我們社會學人生的最後一課。——林宗弘（中研院社會學研究所研究員） ★ 作者以無比的勇氣，真誠無懼地面對死亡，寫下回顧人生、思想、學術與宗教的珠璣片語，猶如深夜的星光，閃耀智慧的光點，令人心思一亮。我們看到一個深具人生睿智的學者，在生命的盡頭，卻能夠以清晰的思辨，持續反省回顧他的人生旅程，這就是他留後人的最大禮物。——張烽益（台灣勞動與社會政策研究協會執行長） ★ 萊特一直以來都把社會正義的現實性及可能性當作首要關懷，而他本身對於理念的身體力行更是令人印象深刻。《命若星塵》雖然並非學術文體，但仍展現出萊特一貫的書寫風格：真誠、善用隱喻、反覆辯證。在本書中，「生死、幸福、愛」這些並非與真實烏托邦無涉，卻較少見於社會科學的議題，都能看到萊特以充滿巧思的方式刻畫。——黃上銓（社科圖書編輯、《理解階級》責任編輯） ★ 艾瑞克已離世三年多，但還是不時會在靈光乍現的記憶中，現身。所謂「在場」，就是存在呈現於此時此地（here and now）。相對地，「缺席」，即是存在的缺失狀態。艾瑞克已宇宙歸隊，但他的身影卻雄辯式地、音容宛在地在場。 缺席的在場，在場的缺席。——黃崇憲（東海大學社會學系助理教授） 「人類的生命是既瘋狂又了不起的現象：某些元素在恆星和超新星爆炸的中心醞釀，並在宇宙中噴湧而出。這些元素最終聚集在一起，成為一顆圍繞著一顆中型恆星的小行星；然後，經過幾十億年的時間，這些「星塵」成為具有自我複製能力的複雜分子，我們稱之為生命。又幾十億年過去，這些自我複製的分子結合成為更複雜的形式，進化成能察覺、甚而具有意識的生物體，最後甚至意識到了意識——至此，星塵變成了有意識的生命物質，覺知自己的存在。而由此而來的，是對死亡的感知。 凡此種種，最非凡而美妙的事情是活著，並且意識到自己是活著的。宇宙中的大多數物質既沒有生命也沒有意識。我作為一個有意識的生命體將會不復存在，但與我正存在的事實相比，顯得微不足道。我並不覺得那就剝奪了我存在的意義；正是這一點使得為生命注入意義成為可能。」 ——艾瑞克．萊特，《命若星塵》
Public Sociology
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Author : Michael Burawoy
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-09-08
Public Sociology written by Michael Burawoy and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-08 with Social Science categories.
Michael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western world. Public Sociology is his most thoroughgoing attempt to explore what a truly committed, engaged sociology should look like in the twenty-first century. Burawoy looks back on the defining moments of his intellectual journey, exploring his pivotal early experiences as a researcher, such as his fieldwork in a Zambian copper mine and a Chicago factory. He recounts his time as a graduate and professor during the ideological ferment in sociology departments of the 1970s, and explores how his experiences intersected with a changing political and intellectual world up to the present. Recalling Max Weber, Burawoy argues that sociology is much more than just a discipline – it is a vocation, to be practiced everywhere and by everyone.
Field Notes From Elsewhere
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Author : Mark C. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2009
Field Notes From Elsewhere written by Mark C. Taylor and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. Taylor would eventually recover, only to face a new threat: surgery for cancer. Field Notes from Elsewhere is Taylor's unforgettable, inverted journey from death to life. Each of his memoir's fifty-two chapters and accompanying photographs recounts a morning-to-evening experience with sickness and convalescence, mingling humor and hope with a deep exploration of human frailty and, conversely, resilience. When we confront the end of life, he explains, the axis of the lived world shifts, and everything must be reevaluated. As Taylor sorts through his remembrances, much that once seemed familiar becomes strange, paradoxical, and contradictory. He reads his experience with and against ghosts from his past, recasting the meaning of mortality, sacrifice, solitude, and abandonment in light of modern ways of dying.
Between Living And Dying
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Author : Ruth Scott
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2019-09-05
Between Living And Dying written by Ruth Scott and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Broadcasters categories.
Busy and deeply absorbed in all the complexity of life, Ruth Scott's packed diary suddenly had to be cleared when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She said, 'Discovering that life might be shorter than expected or hoped for concentrates the mind wonderfully. Whatever life is left to me, I do not want to waste it.'In the final months of her life, in the shadows between living and dying, she learned to live with the extremes of treatments that were as aggressive as the disease - and with daily ups and downs that created constant uncertainty.Throughout it all, Ruth creatively explored - through insight, literature, poetry and song - what life is about and how it should be lived. This book is the result. Here, she cuts through all the things in life that we waste our energies on. She explores the depth of life in ways that allow for doubt, absence and uncertainty while also making room for mystery and understanding beyond rational limitations. As she reflects on how we relate (or not) to each other, to the environment and to the 'more-than-me-ness' of life, she offers real inspiration for us all.
The Eternal Pity
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Author : Richard John Neuhaus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Eternal Pity written by Richard John Neuhaus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Death categories.
Drawing upon a vast range of human experience and reflection, The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying demonstrates how people try to cope with the inevitability of death. Different cultures, informed by religious beliefs and sometimes desperate hope, teach people to respond to their own death and the deaths of others in modes as various as defiance, stoic resignation, and unbridled grief. In addition to examples from literature, poetry, and religious texts, Father Richard John Neuhaus provides an intensely personal account of his encounter with death through emergency cancer surgery and reflects on how that encounter has changed the way he lives. While many writers have deplored the "denial of death" in our culture, The Eternal Pity shows how themes of death and dying are nevertheless perennial and pervasive. Society may be viewed as a disorganized march of multitudes waving little banners of meaning before the threat of nonbeing that is death. Some selections in this book depict people utterly surprised by their mortality; others highlight how the whole of one's life can be a preparation for what used to be called "a good death." For some, life is a relentless effort to hold death at bay; for others, death is, although not welcomed, reflectively anticipated. Nothing so universally defines the human condition as the fact that we shall die. The Eternal Pity helps us to understand how the prospect of death compels decisions about how we might live.
Our Sacred Source
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Author : Andrew Kneier
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-01-05
Our Sacred Source written by Andrew Kneier and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-05 with Religion categories.
Life is not a cakewalk for any of us. We each have our individual sufferings and challenges in life, and we each must endure vital questions that have no certain answers. Why are we here? Where is God when we need him? How do our lives matter in the long run? Our science cannot help us with such questions, but theology can. And that’s what this book has to offer. This book’s theology is based on an arresting theory about God. Turning to modern physics, it finds God in the origin of the universe and in the innermost foundations of the natural world. The universe flowed from his nature, but his nature was not perfect, which is why we have an imperfect world where bad things happen to good people. And yet we also find this God deep within us, enabling us to confront our suffering with resilience and grace. The evil in the world has power, but we have power too, the power from our inner God to hold steady against the slings and arrows of our misfortunes. The theology presented here builds on the discoveries of particle physics and quantum mechanics about the foundational building blocks and forces in all of creation. These reveal the abounding spirit and purposes of the Creator—a spirit that empowers us and instills in us purposes we can embrace and foster. It may seem we are essentially on our own as we navigate through life, but in this book’s theology, God is always and everywhere with us and in us.
Envisioning Real Utopias
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Author : Erik Olin Wright
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Envisioning Real Utopias written by Erik Olin Wright and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Political Science categories.
Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is utopian. Erik Olin Wright's major new work is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. A systematic reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors, Envisioning Real Utopias lays the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system. Characteristically rigorous and engaging, this will become a landmark of social thought for the twenty-first century.
Critical Dementia Studies
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Author : Richard Ward
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-15
Critical Dementia Studies written by Richard Ward and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-15 with Social Science categories.
This book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collectively the contributions gathered together in this text make a powerful case for a more politically engaged and critical treatment of dementia and the systems and structures that currently govern and frame it. The book is inter-disciplinary and draws together leading dementia scholars alongside dementia activists from around the world. It frames dementia as first and foremost a political category. The book advances both theoretical and methodological thinking in the field as well as sharing learning from empirical research. Outlining the limits to existing efforts to frame and theorise the condition, it proposes a new critical movement for the field of dementia studies and practice. The book will be of direct interest to researchers and scholars in the field of dementia studies and wider fields of health, disability and care. It will provide a novel resource for students and practitioners in the fields of dementia, health care and social care. The book also has implications for dementia policymaking, commissioning and community development. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.